Economists warned that prolonged lockdowns would produce increased criminal activity, increased drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, depression, job displacement, homelessness.
I have been unable to locate the article I read in March or April 2020. Written by an economist. Perhaps it was “memory holed”. I distinctly remembered the article though.
It’s not like we weren’t warned.
Quite a few FReepers who are not economists said the same thing in that same time frame.
I was one of them. I am not at all happy that I was right.